Football

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to understand a game that simply doesn’t exist in New Zealand: American Football. He tries to figure out America’s most popular sport and asks why over 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl. After watching the Super Bowl for the first time, David travels to Seattle to get schooled by NFL Hall-of-Famer Walter Jones, who was drafted by the Seahawks in 1997. He discovers what a locker room smells like, and why some football players love to chew gum so much. Walter also opens up about his theories on the existance of extraterrestrial life.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:08.0	Now back in New Zealand, our main sport as rugby. And the all blacks are going to score from the kickoff.
0:15.4	Two teams of 15 people, an oval-shaped ball and lots of rocking, mauling and tackling,
0:21.2	and of course scrums and the hucker.
0:23.0	Our national team is the all blacks and it's all anyone ever talks about.
0:28.0	Here in America, rugby barely exists.
0:31.0	No one seems to even know what it is.
0:33.4	Instead, you've got football, which is confusing because in New Zealand football means soccer.
0:40.1	In America, it's something else entirely.
0:43.0	This confusion shouldn't be all that surprising.
0:50.0	American football evolved out of soccer and rugby, the first ever football game
0:55.0	taking place 153 years ago.
0:58.0	Since then it's become the most watched sport in America.
1:01.6	More than 101 million Americans watch the Super Bowl this year.
1:05.7	That's more than the entire population of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
1:10.8	combined. And it helps explain why the NFL made about 12 billion dollars last year.
1:16.2	45 million Americans will bet on games this season to the tune of about 12 billion
1:22.1	dollars.
1:23.4	But to me, it's still a total mystery.
1:26.5	I mean, the ball is the same shape as rugby,
1:29.2	but instead of running around in skimpy shorts and t-shirts,
1:32.4	everyone is dressed like some kind of gladiator.
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